More teenagers in middle school and high school reported using electronic cigarettes rather than tobacco cigarettes within about 30 days of taking a government-sponsored survey recently published by Monitoring the Future, an organization conducting an ongoing study of the behavior of secondary students across the country.

A policy that advocates said will push second-hand smoke away from essential meeting places at Glendale Community College was approved Monday by the Board of Trustees.
While Glendale already has one of the most restrictive public outdoor smoking...

The art of Francisco Goya is not something to love or hate. It is something to decipher. The Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale presents "The Caprichos Etchings and Aquatints (1799)," 80 of the artist's cutting edge copper plate prints, in a rational, eye-...

CITY HALL — City attorneys this week said they planned to wait to revise the city's day-laborer-related regulations after an appellate court upheld a previously struck-down version in Redondo Beach.
In a 2-1 decision last week, a three-judge...

DOWNTOWN — Following weeks of bitter resentment toward Turkey for its support of an aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip, Armenian organizations are doubling up on efforts to push through a nonbinding congressional resolution recognizing the Armenian...

Glendale has come a long way down the path of cessation, of smoking that is.
In a city that once seemed destined to remain an also-ran in the race by local governments to restrict secondhand smoke, Glendale has rebounded to the head of the pack. Now, smoking in most publicly accessible places is illegal — from restaurant patios to bus stops and parks.
But a war has also been raging on the back end, the point of sale. Health officials and regulators have for years cracked down on merchants...

NORTHEAST GLENDALE — Smoking at Glendale Community College could soon become more restrictive as officials try to strike what they say is a balance between cutting down on secondhand smoke and not forcing students to go off the crowded campus to light up.
College officials are expected to designate eight smoking areas on the Verdugo campus. Current policy allows smoking in areas not marked with "No Smoking" signs.
The college is exempt from a Glendale law that forbids smoking in most public...

Revelations that U.S. officials charged Armenia in 2008 with supplying Iran with weapons later used to kill U.S. troops in Iraq were "enormously troubling," said Rep. Adam Schiff, who has been a staunch supporter of Congress officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide.
The charges were described in a cable sent from the U.S. embassy in Yerevan that also showed Americans considered sanctions against Armenia and demanded that leaders there impose greater controls on the movement of weapons.
U.S. and...

Come Jan. 1, there will be no butts about it at Glendale's two largest hospitals.
Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center and Glendale Adventist Medical Center will become smoke-free in the new year. Ashtrays will be gone, "no smoking" signs will be visible and everyone — from patients and visitors to nurses and hospital brass — will be barred from smoking in clinics, parking areas and anywhere else on campus.
Verdugo Hills Hospital plans to be smoke-free by the end of 2011, a...

A flurry of legislative activity has brought an Armenian Genocide recognition resolution to the brink of a vote in Congress, but it may not be enough as lawmakers prepare to adjourn for the year and Turkey again lobbies strongly to quash the effort.
The resolution from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) would officially recognize the death of more than 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks from 1915 to 1921 as genocide.
With the current Democrat-led House of Representatives coming to a close,...

In a move that was hailed as a "milestone," Utah Gov. Gary Herbert this month signed into law SB 296, which, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, "gives Utah its first statewide nondiscrimination protections for the gay and transgender community while safeguarding religious liberties for people of faith."
With the signing, Utah becomes the 19th state to provide statewide protections for the LGBT community in housing and employment, according to the national Human Rights Campaign.
Under the bill,...

In a controversial decision June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the religious rights of the closely held for-profit Hobby Lobby crafts chain, whose owners objected to the Affordable Care Act's contraceptives mandate. (The court did not apply those rights to publicly held corporations.)
In a Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll conducted in April, Americans backed the contraception mandates of the healthcare law by a 2-to-1 margin. Some of those objecting this week to the Supreme Court's 5-...